This crossword No. 26296 clues and answers were published on Thu 26 Jun 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26296 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Greatly respect the slough of publicity? : ADMIRE
4-across – Protection from rays — shell? : SHADES
9-across – Lovely taste of food is here : DISH
10-across – Gut sac where eruption has me bothered : PERITONEUM
11-across – 9 of squiffy dwarves? : POTTED
12-across – Bomber returning friendless — then happy? : ENOLAGAY
13-across – Peas — unknown quantity devoured by boy, a game backfiring! : GARBANZOS
15-across – Weapons costing an arm and a leg pinched by Carry On star : SIDE
16-across – Altogether an expert : BUFF
17-across – Distance between roads most extraordinary : STRANGEST
21-across – 9 sliced up, that is something to eat : CUTIEPIE
22-across – A tapering structure, long : ASPIRE
24-across – Meat 9, beginning to catch something burnt, acquires treatment : CUMBERLAND
25-across – See 15 : ARMS
26-across – Taste fish, including last of tunny : TRYOUT
27-across – Disease like that restricts young people for starters : TYPHUS
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – A house unseen on skyline over a US state : ARIZONA
2-down – Nonsense that’s going to this setter’s head? : MYHAT
3-down – Writer, not entirely enthralled by French sculptor, forced to help out : ROPEDIN
5-down – Powerful car stolen with pistol : HOTROD
6-down – Girl gripped by consumption sound as a bell? : DINGALING
7-down – See 24 : SAUSAGE
8-down – Rehydrate food after processing — that’s what we’re going to do : ORDEROFTHEDAY
14-down – Super to travel north, if by an unlikely link between oceans : BAFFINBAY
16-down – Fight, having boxed that Spanish nose! : BOUQUET
18-down – Break off one of seven : AWAYDAY
19-down – See 11 : SHRIMPS
20-down – Disposable vessel neither opens nor closes — that’s illuminating : APERCU
23-down – 9 of fruit? : PEACH
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.